Hinge



' Aug. 28, 1928.

W. L. CLARK HINGE F iled Sept. 26, 1927 His OH:

Patented Aug. 28, 1928.

UNITED STATES WYCLIEFE L. CLARK, 0F JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK.

HINGE.

Application filed September 26, 1927. Serial No. 221,880.

This invention relates to an improvement in hinges and more particularly to that type of hinge used in cabinets. v

lVhile hinges of various kinds, for victrolas and radio cabinets, have been constructed and used for sometime it has been found that all of them materially fail, not necessarily in their pivotal action, but in the manner in which they must be secured and the labor attached thereto. In other words, when a cabinet is being constructed the present practise is to hang the unfinished doors and properly align them and, when this is done the doors and hinges are removed to be separately stained or put into their final shape. The doors are then rehung in the cabinet and, as is often the case, do not properly fit. The reason for this is that in finishing the cabinet the holes made for the hinges become filled up and obliterated and it is necessary to align the doors for a second time in order to insure proper hang- 111 iipplicants invention does away with this unnecessary'and double labor, by providing hinges'of two or more elements which may be secured to the door and the cabinet before the cabinet is finished and never be removedtherefrom. The hinges are so constructed that they may be quickly and easily separated at their pivotal point, one element re maining fixed to the cabinet and the other to the door. When the cabinet and doors have been separately finished they may be quickly and accurately joined together by means of the separable hinge and since the elements of the hinge were never removed after alignment, the door will be found to be accurately hung.

An object of this invention is to provide a hinge, one element of which may be secured to the fixed portion of a cabinet, the other element secured to the movable portion of the cabinet, and these two elements fitted together to form a complete and almost wholly concealed hinge.

Another object of this invention is to provide a hinge of this class including a stop to control the movement of the movable element of the hinge with relation to the fixed element.

Other objects of this invention will appear from a consideration of the following specification taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and in which Fig. 1 is a fragmentary front elevation of a cabinet embodying one form of this invention;

Fig. 2 is and shows the lower hinge construction and means for limiting the movement of one element of the hinge with relation to the other;

F 1g. 3 is a sectional View of the cabinet and shows the upper hinge fitted both to the fixed and movable portions of the cabinet;

Fig. 4. is a sectional view taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3; and c Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view of a portion of the cabinet and the door therefor showing the manner of positioning the door with relation to the cabinet,

Referring to the drawing, and more particularly to Fig. 2, this invention is generally indicated at 10 and comprises a fixed element 11, a movable element 12, and a pivotal connecting link 13 secured to the elements 11 and 12. The element 11 consists of an angular bracket having arm 15 and 16. The arm 16 is suitably secured to a cabinet 17 along the base 18 of the open portion thereof by means of screws 20 extending through appropriate openings in the arm 16. The element 11 in order to be entirely clear of and removed from the door 14 is embedded to substantially its own thickness in the base 18. The outer end of the short arm 15 pr0je'cts outwardly from the base portion 18 of the cabinet and has an opening 22 drilled therethrough said opening being at the outer end of the arm. In the arm 16 and near the inner end thereof is provided an opening 23, the purpose of which will later be described.

The movable element 12 consists of, a angular bracket having arms 25 and 26. The arm 25 is embedded in the under face of the door 14 and secured thereto by means of screws 27. The short arm 26 is similar to the short arm 15 with the exception that at its end there is a downwardly extending pin 28 which is adapted to engage the opening 22 in the arm 15. At the juncture of the arm 25 and arm 26 one end of the connecting link 13 is pivotally secured by the rivet 29 or any other suitable means. The link 13 has a longitudinal slot 30 cut therein which begins at the end of said link remote from the rivet 29 and extends theretovi iard about one-half the length of said lin The upper hinge 35 as shown in Fig. 3 comprises two elements 36 and 37 which are a. sectional view of the cabinetsubstantially the same as the elements 11 and 12 of the hinge 10. The element 36 is embedded to a depth equal to its own thickness in the upper face of the door being secured thereto by means of screws a0 and the element 37 is embedded in the under face of the cabinet opening being secured by screws 41. The relative position of the elements 36 and 37 are such that when the door is moved to or from the cabinet, thetwo elements of the hinge will just clear each other without leaving a gap between the under face of the cabinet and the top ofthe door 14. The element 37 is similar to the element 12 of the lower hinge 10 in that is has a downwardly projecting pin 38 extending from the outer end thereof and adapted to engage an opening 39 in the element36. Fig. 4 more clearly illustrates the manner of embedding each element in its respective place to insure the proper relation between the door and the cabinet opening.

When it is desired to secure the door 14 t0 the cabinet 17 by means of the hinge 10 the following steps rare taken. The element 12 is secured to the under face of the door is by means of screws 27, the heads of which are countersunk to provide a flat surface, and the element 11 is similarly secured to the face 18 of the cabinet opening by means of screws 20. The upper hinge 35 is similarly secured to the door and cabinet, the element 36 being secured to the upper face of the door 14 and the element 37 being secured to the top and downwardly projecting face of the cabinet opening. Referring to Fig. 5 it may be seen that the pin 28 of the element 12 will drop into the opening 22 in the element 11. In as much as the pins 28 and 38 are not both aifixed to either the door portion of the hinges or to the cabinet, the upper pin 38 of the element 37 must be positioned within theopening 39 of the element 36 in a different manner. The manner of positioning the pin 38 is accomplished by simply loosening the-screws 40 which hold the element 36 in place and allowing the outer end of said element to tip downwardly a sufiicient distance to engage the pin 38. The screws 40 are then turned down to firmly secure the element 36 onthe upper face of the door 14 and the door is now properly hung and in absolute alignment with the opening therefor. The doornow beinghung. it is necessary to secure the pivotal link 13 to the element 11 by means of other due to the action of the link 13. The

limit of this movement is entirely dependent on the length of said link. The slot 30 is sufficiently long to allow the link 13 to slide upon the element 11 to facilitate closing the door 14. Since the link 13 is the last element to be secured and elements 11 and 12 are easily separable from each other, a hinge of this type is obviously a great improvement over the hinges in present use for cabinets of this kind. This hinge combines readily separable elements as well as a positive stop whereby to limit the travel of the movable element in relation to the fixed element.

' While only. one modification of this invention has been shOwn and described applicant does not intend to be limited thereto since it is obvious that other forms and adaptations may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of this invention .as set forth in the following claims.

Having thus set forth my invention, what I claim as new and for which I desire protection by Letters Patent is:

1, A hinge comprising a fixed element, a movable element, a pin secured in one end of said movable element and adapted to removably engage an opening in said fixed element, a connecting stop link said link being longitudinally slotted through a portion of its length, means pivotally engaging one end of said link with said movable element and a screw engaging the slotted end of said link with said fixed element.

' 2. A hinge comprising a fixed element, a "lovable element, means adapted to removably secure one end of said movable element to said fixed element, a connecting stop link, said link being longitudinally slotted through a portion of its length, means pivotally engaging one end of said link with saidm'ovable element and means engaging said slotted end of said link with said fixed element. I r

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature.

- WYGLIFFE L. CLARK. 

